LightStep

LightStepType| Private

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Industry| Software development, DevOps
Founded| 2015
Founder| Ben Sigelman, Ben Cronin, Daniel Spoonhower
Headquarters|

San Francisco, California

U.S.

Products| Lightstep PM, LightStep Tracing, Change Intelligence
Website| lightstep.com

LightStep is an American software development company known for its observability platform, which provides distributed tracing technology for application performance monitoring.[1] It is currently headquartered in San Francisco.[2]

The software has been used by companies such as Lyft, Twilio, and Yext.[3][4]

## History

Lightstep was founded in 2015 by former Google engineer Ben Sigelman, Ben Cronin, and Daniel Spoonhower.[5][6][7] At Google, Sigelman was one of the creators of Dapper, Google's production distributed systems tracing infrastructure.[8][9]

Lightstep's first product was application performance management software Lightstep PM, which released in 2017.[10][11][12]

Lightstep also announced LightStep Tracing in 2019, a standalone tracing tool that visualizes distributed traces across data available through SaaS applications.[13]

At the beginning of 2020, Lightstep introduced the Service Health for Deployments solution, which allows users to identify and address performance issues during deployments.[12]

In September 2020, Lightstep released OpenTelemetry Launchers, which uses distributed tracing and software tools from the open source project OpenTelemetry to identify performance issues.[14] In October 2020, Lightstep released a new GitHub Action called Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check, which brings observability data directly to GitHub.[15]

Lightstep added a new performance and change monitoring feature called Change Intelligence to its observability platform in February 2021.[16][17][18][19]

## References

1. ↑ "Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform". February 5, 2021. https://devops.com/lightstep-delivers-next-generation-observability-platform/.
2. ↑ "Workplace Winners in Wellness for our Best Places to Work 2020". 2020-04-24. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/04/24/workplace-winners-in-wellness-for-our-best-places.html.
3. ↑ "LightStep Brings Performance Management to Microservices". November 14, 2017. https://thenewstack.io/lightstep-brings-performance-management-microservices/.
4. ↑ "Cisco's Skyport Move Illustrates APM Movement". https://www.transformingnetworkinfrastructure.com/topics/hyperscale-data-centers/articles/436651-ciscos-skyport-move-illustrates-apm-movement.htm.
5. ↑ "LightStep launches monitoring tools for microservices-based apps". November 14, 2017. https://siliconangle.com/2017/11/14/lightstep-exits-stealth-brandishing-monitoring-tools-microservices-based-apps/.
6. ↑ "What good observability looks like for companies with Ben Cronin of Lightstep". 2020-09-10. https://digitalanarchist.com/videos/2020-gitlab-commit-virtual/what-good-observability-looks-like-for-companies-with-ben-cronin-of-lightstep.
7. ↑ "Ex-Googlers Launch LightStep, Extending APM Beyond Applications". 2017-11-13. https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/lightstep-extends-apm-beyond-applications/2017/11/.
8. ↑ "LightStep emerges from stealth with a tool for application performance monitoring". 2017-11-13. https://social.techcrunch.com/2017/11/13/lightstep-emerges-from-stealth-with-a-tool-for-application-performance-monitoring/.
9. ↑ Sigelman, Benjamin H.; Barroso, Luiz André; Burrows, Mike; Stephenson, Pat; Plakal, Manoj; Beaver, Donald; Jaspan, Saul; Shanbhag, Chandan (January 14, 2010). Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure. https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html?spm=a2c1b.detail67195.a2c1b31.12.nDrLp1.
10. ↑ "LightStep Emerges from Stealth and Introduces LightStep [xPM"]. November 17, 2017. https://www.apmdigest.com/lightstep-emerges-from-stealth-and-introduces-lightstep-xpm.
11. ↑ "A guide to APM tools". December 3, 2018. https://sdtimes.com/apm/a-guide-to-apm-tools/.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "LightStep Introduces Service Health for Deployments Solution". January 29, 2020. https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/LightStep-Introduces-Service-Health-for-Deployments-Solution-136293.aspx.
13. ↑ Vizard, More from Mike (2019-03-12). "LightStep Unfurls Dynamic Tracing Service" (in en-US). https://devops.com/lightstep-unfurls-dynamic-tracing-service/.
14. ↑ "Lightstep helps developers make sense of complex apps with OpenTelemetry Launchers". September 29, 2020. https://sdtimes.com/monitor/lightstep-helps-developers-make-sense-of-complex-apps-with-opentelemetry-launchers/.
15. ↑ "SD Times news digest: Lightstep announces new GitHub Actions, Gitpod adds native integration with GitLab, and Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 preview" (in en-US). 2020-10-08. https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/sd-times-news-digest-lightstep-announces-new-github-actions-gitpod-adds-native-integration-with-gitlab-and-xamarin-essentials-1-6-preview/.
16. ↑ "Lightstep delivers on the promise of AIOps with Change Intelligence platform". February 4, 2021. https://siliconangle.com/2021/02/04/lightstep-delivers-promise-aiops-change-intelligence-platform/.
17. ↑ "Lightstep Connects Tracing and Metrics with New Change Intelligence Feature". 2021-02-21. https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/02/lightstep-change-intelligence/.
18. ↑ "Lightstep’s ‘Change Intelligence’ Promises Faster, Smarter Distributed Tracing". February 4, 2021. https://thenewstack.io/lightsteps-change-intelligence-promises-faster-smarter-distributed-tracing/.
19. ↑ "Lightstep brings AIOps to observability". February 4, 2021. https://www.itopstimes.com/aiops/lightstep-brings-aiops-to-observability/.

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